KARACHI (Dunya News) – A day after witnessing the highest steep fall of the year, the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) on Friday saw hide and seek between bulls and bears, with the benchmark KSE-100 index hovering at 107,463 points initially after gaining more than 1,100 points.
It then took a beating by the bears, tumbling by more than 400 points.
As the ebb and flow continued, things improved a bit and with an increase of 3,238 points, KSE-100 index closed at 109,513 points.
It must be remembered that massive selling was all the rage in the PSX on Dec 19 (Thursday), with the benchmark KSE-100 Index dragged to close at 106,200 after a historic single-day loss of 4,795 points in the PSX.
Market analysts attribute this loss to profit-taking spree.
PSX stays bearish, loses 4,795 more points
The 100-Index of the PSX continued with bearish trend on Dec 19 (Thursday), losing 4,795.32 points, a negative change of 4.32 percent, closing at 106,274.98 points compared to 111,070.29 points on the last trading day.
A total of 1,167,361,955 shares were traded during the day compared to 1,111,921,053 shares in the previous trading day, whereas the price of shares stood at Rs56.797 billion against Rs60.242 billion on the last trading day.
As many as 472 companies transacted their shares in the stock market - 66 of them recorded gains and 371 sustained losses, whereas the share price of 35 companies remained unchanged.